13th – 14th November Conference Programme
Conference Theme: ‘Why Mechanisms Causing Difficulty Matter’
| Thursday 13th November 2008 | ||
| 08:00 – 09:15 | Registration | |
| 09:15 – 11:00 | Session 1: Airway Assessment | Chair – Dr Ellen O’Sullivan |
| 09:15 – 09:40 | What is known about mechanisms causing difficulty? | Dr Pete Charters |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Pre-operative assessment based on problem lists | Dr Ian Tweedie |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Nasendoscopy for anaesthetists | Mr Terry Jones |
| 10:20 – 10:50 | Imaging old and new | Dr Hugh Lewis-Jones |
| 10.50 – 11.00 | Discussion and Questions (10mins) | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Tea, Coffee & Exhibition Viewing | |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Session 2: Planning for worst case | Chair – Dr Tim Cook |
| 11:30 – 11:55 | How do current devices “fit” the problems | Dr Mark Halligan |
| 11:55 – 12:20 | AirSim lessons about device limitations | Dr Seema Darshane |
| 12:20 – 12:50 | Responsive Contingency Planning | Dr Peter Groom |
| 12.50 – 13.00 | Discussion and Questions (10mins) | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch & Exhibition Viewing - Sponsored by |
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| 14:00 – 15:30 | Session 3a: Poster session | Chair – Prof Martyn Leuwer |
| 14.00-14.10 | Paediatric Tracheostomy : Difficult Airway Incidence and Management | Fiona Wrightson |
| 14.10-14.20 | Success of Orotracheal Intubation with the Airtraq Optical Laryngoscope in Patients with Difficult Conventional Laryngoscopy | Ernst Zadrobilek |
| 14.20-14.30 | The Performance of the Laryngeal Mask Supreme™ Compared to the i-gel™ in Anaesthetized Patients with Simulated Difficult Airway | Lorenz Theiler |
| 14.30-14.40 | Using a Small Modified Ejector to Achieve Adequate Ventilation through a 2 mm Transtracheal Catheter in a Simulated Upper Airway Obstruction | Ankie Hamaekers |
| 14.40-14.50 | Difficult intubation in patients with fractured mandibles: a prospective survey | Simon Parrington |
| 14.50-15.00 | The effects of mandibular advancement on radiological airway dimensions | Annie Hunningher |
| 15.00-15.10 | Litigation following airway-related anaesthetic morbidity or mortality: an analysis of claims against and costs to the NHS in England 1995-2007 | Shaun Scott |
| 15.10-15.20 | Crossover comparison of the i-gel with the cuffed endotracheal tube during anaesthesia for positive pressure ventilation | Vishal Uppal |
| 15.20-15.30 | Incidence of Difficult Intubation in Super-obese Patients undergoing Bariatric Surgery | Mike Margarson |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Session 3b: Alternative Session 1 Industry demonstrations (30 – 60mins) |
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| 15:30 – 16:00 | Tea, Coffee & Exhibition Viewing | |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Session 4: When and why airway plans fail | Chair – |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Why plans have failed | Dr Rajagopal Vennila |
| 16:30 – 16:55 | Responsive Contingency Planning in practice | Dr Andy Higgs |
| 16:55 – 17:20 | Post-operative considerations (an ICU perspective) | Dr Tristram Cope |
| 17.20 – 17.30 | Discussion and Questions (10mins) | |
| 17:30 | Annual General Meeting | |
| Friday 14th November 2008 | ||
| 09:15 – 10:45 | Session 5: Paediatric/O&G airways convergence? | Chair – Dr Chris Frerk |
| 09:15 – 09:40 | Problematic paediatric airways | Dr Frank Potter |
| 09:40 – 10:05 | New problems in obstetric airways? | Dr Eddie Djabatey |
| 10:05 – 10:35 | Human factors; “Notech” approach | Dr Ravi Dravid/Dr Guy Hirst |
| 10.35 – 10.45 | Discussion and Questions (10mins) | |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Tea, Coffee & Exhibition Viewing | |
| 11:15 – 12:45 | Session 6a: Got my “big idea” but what next? | Chair – Dr Pete Charters |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | How do I publish it and in any case should I? | Prof Judith Hall |
| 11:45 – 12:05 | How do I protect my intellectual property? | Mr Mark Earnshaw |
| 12:05 – 12:25 | How I did it -1 | Dr Muhmammed A Nasir (I GEL) |
| 12:25 – 12:45 | How I did it -2 | Dr Pedro Acha (AIRTRAQ) |
| 11:15 – 12:45 | Session 6b: Alternative Session 2 | Chair – Dr Anil Patel |
| Debate – “Sugammadex will improve safe management of the difficult airway”. | ||
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Introduction to pharmacology | Prof Jenny Hunter |
| 11:45 – 12:25 | 'The advent of suggamadex makes use of (non-depolarising) muscle relaxants in the difficult airway safe' | Pro: Prof Rajinder Mirakhur/Con: Dr Tim Cook |
| 12:25 – 12:45 | Audience participation | |
| 12:45 – 14:00 | Lunch & Exhibition Viewing - Sponsored by Karl Storz Endoscopy UK  |
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| 14:00 – 15:15 | Session 7: Prizes / DAS projects | Chair – Dr Ravi Dravid |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Tea, Coffee & Exhibition Viewing | |
| 15:45 – 17:15 | Session 8: Airway trauma – a logical approach? | Chair – Prof Judith Hall |
| 15:45 – 16:10 | Facial trauma and the anaesthetist | Mr Patrick Magennis |
| 16:10 – 16:35 | Upper airway trauma | Mr Nick J Roland |
| 16:35 – 17:05 | Responsive Contingency Planning and airway trauma | Dr Richard Craig |
| 17.05 – 17.15 | Discussion and Questions (10mins) | |
| 17:15 | Close of meeting | |
(Programme subject to final confirmation by relevant speakers etc)